Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-11

The live stock of Vousla county is
valued at SPA, l99.
Pears are being shipped from near
Eustls by Mr.. Wooten, who is getting
S. per crate.
DeLand's ''little railroad" paid taxes
on $l3,100 last year. Ehis year the
amount will he more than double.
VoIusia county is on a boom. People
are flowing in everywhere, and many Of
them are making extensive improve
ments.
If some man will undertake 10 erect
! hotel at Orange City ne can get free
fine site and a bonus OF from So, 600 to
s. 900.
The guava trees around Fort Myers
promise an abundant crop. The trees
have ell grown up since the freeze OF Jan.
uary, 1856.
The 3. S. .. g. and A. railway will
| have beautiful steamer TO run on the
Halifax and Hillsboro rivers III connec-
| ton with the road.
| w. Milford Ingraham and Charles II
Dewell have been reelected Chief and
Assistant Chief OF the Fire Department
/ Of st. Augustine.
Capturing 120-pouud turtle with hook
| and lire is quite an unusual achievement,
! but Ibis was accomplished day or two
since by visitor at st. Augustine.
DR.. Wyley, near Titusyile, has acres OF
| Irish potatoes two feet high, and expects
to ship 500 barrels OF cabbage from three
and halt acres within few DAYS.
The city fathers OF Green Cove Springs
| nave caused the planting Of 4 large num-
| Der of shade trees along the edge of the
! sidewalks by Offering bonus sufficient
| TO cover the cost.
| The Agricultural and Horticultural De-
4rrl I'm. kA,nal 1, "a
/ correspondence with Maj. James Evans,
OF Fort MYERS, to get cuttings and sam
| pies OF irut OF mis- famous lime trees.
William Desselberger lately sold sixty
acres of bis New Augustine property a
! $50 per acre. He retains the same amount.
/ which he has divided into lots. This
/ property was hOmesteaded by him eight
! years ago.
1t is part of the plan of the contractor
OF the kedney block at Orlando to make
| provision TOR town clock IN the obserya-
! tory which will surm0unt the structure.
! Already a number of donations to the
purchase Of the clock have been pledged.
A. L. Ximanies, of st. Augustine, has
been appointed an Inspector OF Customs
! for tae coast of Florida. 1t is understood
that another gentleman Of the same city
has received commission OF some kind,
! The nature OF which ne refuses 10 di-
! Vulge.
The bulk of the acreage devoted to corn
| planting is put in during the first ten
| DAYS of this month by farmers in CLAW
county. Col Wright has been putting
out tomato plants for some time, and eX-
| poets to have seven acres in this palatable
vegetable.
The st. Augustine Improvement Com
! pany has contracted to build tor A. V.
! Monsoon 81 large concrete building on Bay
street, on the lot recently purchased by
| Mr.. MOnson from the estate of the late d.
| Nj. Edgar, and Which runs through to
| Charlotte street.
A good portion of the lower floor of the
! Ponce de Leon Hotel at st, Augustine has
been plastered, and carpenters are now
busily engaged in putting in the finishing
woodwork, and large force OF painters
engaged. The hotel Is visited daily by
| throDgs of tourists.
Hon. James Mackin, for long time a
very prominent Democratic politician OF
the State of New York, and ex-Treasurer
OF the Empire State, diedFriday at the st.
Augustine Hotel after lingering Illness.
he mad held many offices of private as
well as public trust.
Work on the great artesian well on the
| Ponce de Leon grounds at st. Augustine
| is now in operation again, and the con-
| tractor Is evidently determined to reach
J soft water or the Celestial kin gdom. The
drill is now down about 1500 feet, aud
the flow remains about 1000, 600 per day.
The st. Augustine Guards are daily ex-
pectng new lot Of equipments from the
! AdiuIant General, and also new rifes
ana supply OF ammunition. They have
also volunteered to take part in the obse-
quies of the late Gen. W. W. Loring,
whose remains will shortly be inferred
there.
The dredge boat Chester, at the Indian
river haulOyer, broke down again last
week, and some of the machinery was
taken to Sanford for repairs. The dredge
has finished one of the cuts through to
the channel OF Indian river, so that small
steamers drawing as much as three and
four feet of water can pass through.
An old colored man went to Lees
| burg Saturday to get a divorce. His
| reason Tor taking this step, he said, was
| indisputably good. lie married his wife
thinking she had an orange grove, and,
to his sorrow, soon learned that all she
possessed in this world WAS sour orange
tree and wash tub.
The steam tug Gladiator has returned
from Charleston and resumed her tow
age business in Fernandina harbor. The
! Gladiator was entirely built at st. Mary 3
come ten or twelve years ago, and has
been in Charleston for the past six or
seven weeks having new boilers put in
and other repairs done to fully rent her.
Several West Virginians have lately
settled in the southeastern part OF Levy
| county. They migrated from their native
/ State TO Orange county, then to Levy,
In search of better lands. They
found a country ther o that suited them,
and the colony is receiving new acces.
| sions continually from other West Vlr.
ginIans that have located IN Orange and